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Why do you think that is? I'm thinking it's the length of season and how close most NFL teams are to making the playoffs. I also suspect that gambling is a factor as well.

Dusty Baker seemed to have weathered his comment about black and Latino players being better in the heat and sun and white players being slow. Plus has he ever won a postseason series? But no doubt being white is a huge and unfair advantage in America.

Tim Anderson is managing this team one day if JR is still around.

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As @southsider2k5pointed out the Sox "system" has resulted in Kenny Williams and Tony Larussa. Both hires are consistent with Sox and JR history. I'm trying to think of a way to eliminate the sham interview and increase minority hiring at the same time. Stopping the "retread" hiring I think can be a step in the right direction. To me TL was the ultimate retread hiring. At the same time if you own a team and decide that you love your coach but if Belichick was available you would fire your guy and hire Belichick, I don't think the sham interview helps anyone. But admittedly there may only be three or four guys alive in that category and it is not worth stepping on that slippery slope. Thank you @Kyyle23 who pointed that out to me earlier.

OK, I'm with you. Now how would you write a rule so that JR was not allowed to hire a HoF manager, and a former team employee, to lead his team? I'll take a run at it. I like @southsider2k5 idea of a monetary reward.I'm going to go a little off that. It should have cost JR some money and I would have a stepped system. Hire a white guy and it costs you some. It would cost more the more other chances the guy had to manage (the retread penalty) and finally the biggest penalty of all for bringing a white guy who managed multiple teams out of retirement to manage.

Who benefits?

I hope it comes with a shorter season and greater percentage of the playoff gate to the players. That to me is a win for both sides and the fans. (I acknowledge that some fans prefer regular season games to playoff games).

I like it.

One of the cornerstone reasons I am proud to be a Sox fan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost I thought I knew what it meant. LOL

Exactly. He was even given a third chance* to carry on and fix his organization and has now I believe utterly failed. *Once when it was happening, a second when it was reported, now a third moving forward. I don't have a second team so the NHL has lost an admitted casual fan.

The owners could end this anytime they want and still have money for many generations of descendants. Players would still be earning at the MLB level much more than they could anywhere else and have money for their descendants. The only threat to their wealth is a bunch of too big egos who can't come up with an agreement. This is insanity. Unlike most strikes/work stoppages in our history both sides could live very comfortably with the previous agreement. They aren't fighting over unsafe working conditions, poverty wages, business about to fail without concessions from the workers, etc. The fight is over how to share the profits of a very profitable business. I wish there was something truly nobel for them to fight over. I could dig in and argue with the best of them. But in a world where people are starving, face persecution and wars these idiots are fighting over when someone should be arb eligible?! One side is saying $600,000 isn't enough and the other side can pay $750,000 but won't?

As I said earlier I don't have a better solution all figured out but I will toss a start of an idea and see if smarter people than I can work with it. What if in addition to the Rooney Rule they put in place a rule to increase the number of POC coaches in the league? Let's build the NFL coaching staff better. If I was a POC I'm not certain I would want a career that leads nowhere. So we need to keep the pressure on the GM and HC positions but also fill the ranks with coaches. As a kid who grew up in the 60s and 70s I'm just crushed that we would be having this conversation forty years after I left high school. The future looked so much better back then. My generation failed to make this better other than requiring sham interviews.

Exactly. If the Bears would think of it as $100 mil / 5 years with the last five for free (and be willing to move on if it wasn't working), I could see it working. But IMHO they would stubbornly hang on until the contract was up before making a move.

I agree with where you are going. But consider this. Worse than what we have now? Only Mike Tomlin and Ron Rivera? Removing it without something better in place would be worse. But I don't think it's done anything other than some window dressing. Replacing the Rooney rule with something better should be a priority of the NFL.

I'm almost certain I wouldn't. Especially when the Bears probably would keep putting him out there until the end of the contract no matter what. Here's an interesting question, if you were writing the check, is there any coach alive you would give that amount to?

I guess you didn't read my full post. Bummer. No, letting them do whatever they want isn't a solution, I never said it was. never advocated for it. It's about the stupidest thing I could think of doing. What I'm saying is we need something better than the Rooney rule. I don't think the Rooney rule is working, does anyone?

The league needs to pressure them into selling and I don't say that lightly, it should only be an option when someone is an embarrassment to the league.

Let's say for a moment that Harbaugh (or anyone) was a team's dream head coach heading into the off season. Owners were all in. Front office was all in. The fan base was all in. Most importantly Harbaugh was all in. Why interview anyone else? While I am 100% for the goal, I believe it is what's best for society and the NFL, the sham interview isn't getting us there because there are times that good people would be set on a non POC for their head coach or GM from the beginning for sound football and business reasons. I don't have a better solution that can be mandated, I think if there was one it would have already been implemented. And we all know that great coaches are being looked over which is insulting to fans as well as potential coaches. We just need to find a better way to achieve that goal.

13 years a MiLB manager? Wow, you must really love baseball or really dislike your spouse.

I sent an email to Bettman's official email account. I have no hope of him actually reading it but I'm hoping someone is reporting what is coming through. His (Rocky's) arrogance is just so infuriating.

His answer makes me believe they aren't doing a damn thing to make certain it doesn't happen again and they wouldn't care if it did unless it was reported. If Bettman had any integrity he would denounce Rocky quickly.

Sorry Rocky, whatever sentimental feelings I had for the Hawks and their possible recovery just went down the tubes after watching you today. I have never been more embarrassed for a Chicago team as I am now. The organization should be saying I'm sorry every time they get a chance. You don't get to decide when people can and can't talk about it. You are the guilty ones. The worst owners in sports.

My guess is whatever he was asking for was a quick and easy no from Minny and probably would have been a quick no from the Bears.